Clara
\kla.ʁa\
The verdict
“Clara” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,216 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #8,216
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom officiel d’une commune française, située dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales, dont le nom officiel est maintenant Clara-Villerach.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kla.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Clara” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Clara is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kla.ʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,216 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ancien nom officiel d’une commune française, située dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales, dont le nom officiel est maintenant Clara-Villerach.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clara, with forms such as "calra", "cclara", and "claar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cra", "clay", "cora", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Clara, spelled C-L-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom officiel d’une commune française, située dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales, dont le nom officiel est maintenant Clara-Villerach.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: calra,cclara,claar,clarra,cllara,clraa,lcara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clara - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Clara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-L-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kla.ʁa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cra” - see the side-by-side comparison. Clara vs cra
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.